Year in Review 2010: Most Memorable TV Moments

That’s good news for fans of the “Vato” episode, which Kirkman wrote, and which featured the first zombie massacre of the season.

Kirkman, who’s also an executive producer on the show, said in an interview with EW last month that he’s enjoyed the process of adapting his comic for television as part of a “team” of writers.

“It was like writing with a safety net,” he said. “I think it makes the writing that much stronger and it’s a really fun process.”

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“The Walking Dead’s” Halloween premiere scored a record 5.3 million viewers for AMC and has continued to draw eyeballs and critical acclaim from the living throughout its six-episode run.

With the network having ordered up 13 episodes of “Walking Dead” for season two, execs are betting that tinkering with the show’s formula won’t be the end of the world for the post-apocalyptic thriller.